AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Pentium G3220T

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel Pentium G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points
63% significantly better overall score
1102 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points
47% significantly better gaming score
2039 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points
61% significantly better multitasking score
895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points
56% significantly better heavy workload score
881 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
951 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points
526 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
813 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points
456 points
0.44% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

3
49% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
200% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
35 W
171% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089
923rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition
Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

FX-6300 vs Pentium G3220T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Pentium G3220T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3220T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-6300 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Pentium G3220T has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3220T. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G3220T. The Pentium G3220T outputs less heat than FX-6300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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